Hello, On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:56:39PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:39:35 +0000 > Andy Smith <a...@strugglers.net> wrote: > > Please do not encourage Gene's fetish of running GUI apps as root. > > Plenty of people have been wasting their time trying to tell him not > > to do that for years now, and the last thing they need is bystanders > > handing him a different bore of firearm to aim at his foot. > > I understand not running, say, VLC as root. But Synaptic? It allows you
Even if you want to disregard the security implications of running a GUI app as root, just because the alternative might be running a similar TUI app fully as root — and I wouldn't necessarily agree with that stance as GUI apps are inherently bigger and more complicated — but sure, let's go along with that: Even then, the fact remains that GUI apps needing a bit of admin access is a decades old problem that has a really old solution, that being policykit, a framework specifically designed for this that Synaptic uses on all major desktop environments and is thus the supported way to run Synaptic in GUI mode. root is a different user. There are all manner of intricacies involved in getting a different user to have permission and ability to meddle with the display session of the person sat in front of the computer. This is the way it's meant to be done. So anyone persisting with this with sudo and trying to copy X cookies around is just looking for pain. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
